But in the places where they had once been active, faint traces of Spiritual Power still lingered, so minute they were barely perceptible. Others might have overlooked them or paid them no mind, but to Cui Jiuyang, they were obvious enough.
Cui Jiuyang found this rather interesting.
For one thing, given Great-Grandfather's cultivation of The Eight Extremes, he should not have been so careless as to leave such clues.
That meant either Great-Grandfather had deliberately left this subtle hint, or... he simply thought nothing of Divine Path Heaven and had only casually erased his aura, not caring in the slightest whether he would be exposed.
For another, this courtyard seemed to be unoccupied at present.
Whether he carefully examined it with his Divine Sense or asked a passing believer, the answer was the same: this was where the winners of the previous Protector competition had stayed, but those winners had now been dispatched to various places by the sect to carry out Protector duties.
The believer also specifically mentioned that four Protectors had stayed in this courtyard, and one of them had indeed been surnamed Cui.
However, that Protector Cui had been quiet and unsociable, keeping very much to himself, so the believer did not know much about him.
Clearly, given Great-Grandfather's character, there was no way he would actually obey Divine Path Heaven's orders and carry out some blasted Protector assignment.
Who knew what Divine Path Heaven had done to provoke that old patriarch, stirring such an interest in him that he had gone to the trouble of infiltrating it.
Although Cui Jiuyang had never really thought much of Divine Path Heaven, this so-called "greatest sect in Southern Heaven," with his current cultivation and strength, there were no longer any powerful cultivators in the sect who could clearly and